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Bob Filner spent time and effort in Congress trying to work a progressive agenda into countrywide legislation. He helped coordinate the Intensifying Caucus in the House during his first term, to gather like-minded progressives into a cohesive push. Although they prolonged to meet throughout his term in the House, it didn't take long to understand that legislative power is held securely in the hands of the party leadership. The probability of radical changes in key conditions that are important to progressives is bound up in an arcane process--hemmed in by rules and managed by powerful congressmen who are greatly inspired by persuasive, well-financed special-interest teams.When the opportunity arose for Filner to get back to NORTH PARK and run for mayor, he jumped at the chance. In 2012, after having a hard-fought advertising campaign, he was sworn in as the first Democratic mayor of NORTH PARK in a technology. He came into office with a vision of remaking NORTH PARK into a showplace of progressive innovation. Despite the fact that it is the eighth-largest city in the us, NORTH PARK still experienced a provincial view of itself. Armed with a set of a hundred things he wanted to accomplish, Filner establish to work. His vision would transform NORTH PARK into a more inclusive city that would provide better opportunity for each and every neighborhood. On this book, Filner discusses the task he spent 30 years seeking, and the task he still left undone.
